Brian Greene
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greeneis an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds. He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 February 1963
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.